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CELEBRATING OVER 10 YEARS OF SWITCH!

Experienced local physiotherapy
health care service

At SWITCH, we go beyond simply alleviating symptoms; we aim to empower our patients to take an active role in their healing process. By providing them with the necessary tools and knowledge, we help them regain confidence in their body’s abilities and embrace life to the fullest. We take pride in helping our patients achieve lasting results and improved well-being, supporting them throughout their journey to recovery.

What makes us different is our commitment to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in physiotherapy. This ensures that our patients receive the best and most effective care available. We create a warm and welcoming environment, where open communication and empathy form the foundation of our patient relationships.

WHAT WE BELIEVE IN

WE LISTEN

With our evidence based approach to health care means we don’t make any assumptions or take things for granted. We spend the time needed to listen and fully understand your health concerns so that we have a deep understanding of what you would like to achieve or get back to doing.

PERSONAL TREATMENT

We create an individualised treatment plan that goes through our 3 key steps to success: Explore, Preparation and Return.

THERAPY & MOVEMENT​

We can ensure great results for our clients when we apply our hands on manual therapy techniques and unique movement patterns which gives you a step by step treatment to prevent the pain from returning

AVOID QUICK FIXES

We will avoid situations where we are asked for a quick fix, we ensure we go through the cause of the problem, correct it and provide you the right education to prevent it from coming back. This takes time and we have a process that we have developed over many years.

LONG TERM SOLUTIONS

We don’t shy away from the fact that effective physiotherapy treatment takes time and requires a plan of sessions to do it. Other clinics may shy away from the multiple sessions and provide short term pain relief, only for it to return. We provide transparency from day one, there are no shortcuts and to effectively treat most pain issues will require long term solutions.

TESTIMONIALS

I recently finished up my physio at Switch Penshurst. I found it to be a really positive experience, with a nice relaxed vibe, and a friendly, professional team. I needed some help with a few different issues and liked the approach of working through a plan towards a goal for each of the issues.

I had complete confidence and trust in my therapist, Tim, and would definitely go back if I injured something else. But let’s hope I don’t.

Leanne Hodgkiss
Physiotherapy in Penshurst

Switch have helped me overcome injury and partake in events that may not have been possible without their attention. Endurance training has often left me with aches and pains that are resolved with the help from the professional team at Switch. I highly recommend them.

Lorah Chetcuti
Physiotherapy at Concord

After suffering the worst injury I’ve had to date, that affected my active life severely I thought I would never play basketball or to the gym again. That’s until i met Matt at Switch Physio Concord. Not only did he help me get back onto my feet in a week. After 3 months post a minor achilles tear in my left ankle, i am running, training and feeling 100%. He has given me the confidence to myself and my abilities. Thank you Matt!

Ellie
Physiotherapy at Penshurst

Frequently asked questions about physiotherapy

Physiotherapy services are effective in treating a wide range of conditions, including musculoskeletal injuries (such as sprains, strains, and fractures), joint and back pain, post-surgical rehabilitation, sports-related injuries, neurological disorders, and chronic pain conditions. Our physiotherapists are experienced in providing personalised care to address your specific needs and concerns.

During a physiotherapy session, our skilled physiotherapists will conduct a thorough assessment of your condition, taking into account your medical history and current symptoms. Based on the evaluation, they will develop a personalised treatment plan that may include manual therapies, therapeutic exercises, and specialised modalities. Our goal is to alleviate pain, improve mobility, and enhance overall function, while empowering you with the knowledge and tools to actively participate in your recovery.

The number of physiotherapy sessions required depends on the nature and severity of your condition. Some individuals may experience significant improvement after just a few sessions, while others with more complex issues may require a longer treatment plan. Our physiotherapists will regularly assess your progress and adjust the treatment plan accordingly, ensuring that you receive the most effective and efficient care to achieve lasting results.

A physio is a qualified health practitioner who is focused on helping people out of pain and moving again. Physiotherapists have high levels of expertise in the structure of the human body and its movement. A physio can work with people of all ages to treat a broad range of health conditions including sports injuries, musculoskeletal conditions or even chronic health conditions such as osteoarthritis. The most common symptoms that Clients come to a physio for are things like back pain, neck pain or shoulder pain that can cause headaches or joint pain.
A Switch Physiotherapist will use our simple, evidence based, 3 step approach to identify the cause of your injury or pain to then create a structured care plan that is personalised to help you get moving again, the way you’re meant to. We do this through our three key steps;
 
Explore: find out what it is that you are not able to do, listen to what is important to you and what it is that you want to get back to doing
 
Preparation: through manual therapy and our signature movement patterns we improve and prepare your body to move
 
Return: get you back to the things you love. Our hands on treatment uses unique movement patterns that form part of your individualised treatment plan to ensure that pain is not an obstacle for your everyday movements. We strive to ensure that your individualised treatment plan provides you with all the tools you need to prevent the pain from affecting your movement. We have successfully treated thousands of situations including back pain caused by incorrect posture sitting at a desk or pain from carrying heavy loads repetitively.
Physiotherapy treatment can vary depending on the style of the physio. Switch is a local physio that provides a range of treatments that include;
  • Hands on manual therapy
  • Dry needling
  • Gusha

These are combined with our own unique movement patterns that help ensure that our physio treatment will help your back, neck, knee or other body parts get moving the way they are meant to. Physiotherapy is treatment that you get with the aim of resorting, maintaining or maximising the most of your available mobility to ensure you can live comfortably day to day. Physiotherapy is focussed on helping you through physical rehabilitation, injury prevention and improving general health levels where you are involved in your recovery.

The Switch physio team treats many conditions including; Neck Pain, Back Pain, Shoulder Pain, Knee pain and Heel pain. Our team has extensive experience treating muscle and skeletal injuries, sporting injuries and post surgery rehabilitation. We help people who have been affected by injury, illness or disability through movement and exercise, manual therapy, education and advice. Sometimes you might not even realise you need a physio but if you are suffering from regular headaches, pain in your joints or even things like muscle strains then a trained physiotherapist may be able to help you.

When you book a physio session one of the Switch clinics the first thing our trained staff will do is explore & understand your needs. Using our evidence based approach we don’t assume anything and will create an individualised treatment plan that will cater to your specific health requirements. The teams focus is to reduce pain and improve your body’s ability to move freely like it is meant to. At each session our team will use a range of hands on manual therapy techniques combined with our unique movement patterns to help reduce the pain you are suffering to treat muscular or skeletal issues.

The Switch physio team has over 65 years of combined experience and we have seen first hand how physio does really work to address pain and improvement body movement. Our team has been expertly trained to understand how to identify muscular or skeletal issues that might be preventing you from moving freely or causing pain in your neck, back or joints.

Our unique physio treatment methods work effectively when combined with our evidence based individual treatment plans that will focus on providing the right remedy for your situation. We spend the time to understand the outcomes you desire and ensure you can get back to doing the things you love to do as quickly as possible.

Physio can really work for lots of different situations like helping to alleviate regular headaches, rehabilitating a sports injury or reducing joint pain

Getting physio to help with back pain is one of the most common health concerns that we treat in our clinics. Modern life sees us sitting at desks for longer periods of time, looking down at our mobile devices for longer and even laying back on a sofa to watch Netflix – all of these everyday scenarios can lead to poor posture and be a contributor to back pain.

Of course there are many other reasons why you might experience back pain such as;

  • Muscle or ligament strain from repeated heavy lifting or a sudden awkward movement that might strain muscles or spinal ligaments. Depending on your physical condition the constant strain on your back may cause painful muscle spasms.
  • Bulging or ruptured disks where the soft material inside a disk can rupture or press on a nerve.
  • Osteoarthritis can affect your lower back where in some cases, arthritis in the spine can lead to a narrowing of the space around the spinal cord, a condition called spinal stenosis.
  • Osteoporosis where your spine’s vertebrae can develop painful fractures if your bones become porous and brittle.
 

In each case our team doesn’t assume anything and takes an evidence based approach to identify the cause of the back pain to then use hands on treatments to help reduce the level of severity. We provide you with the right movement patterns and exercise routines to help reduce the chance of the pain returning.

Back pain should not get worse after receiving physio treatment. In our experience when we have seen clients experience back pain that is worse after treatment is is because they were using the wrong stretches or exercises that have led to further back overload. At Switch we focus on hands on manual therapy techniques that are aimed at settling the pain first, then we apply our unique movement patterns to ensure the rehabilitation won’t overload your back again.

Physio treatment might hurt and we realise this sounds quite vague but everyone’s pain threshold is different. So for some people it may be quite bearable and for others the same amount of pain could be excruciating. Every physio treatment is not only different for every individual but what we apply will vary as well based on the condition of your body.

At Switch we user hands on manual therapy techniques that sometimes need to be applied to very tight muscles which can feel sore or uncomfortable during the treatment. So when we get asked ‘will physio hurt?’, we generally reply that it will and muscles might feel a bit tender the next day, but this is a necessary step to alleviate the pain or lack of movement you are dealing with.

Yes absolutely physio is a waste of time for any individual who is looking for quick fixes. At Switch we spend a lot of time and energy to treat the cause of the injury and this requires a very clear plan and time to execute it to ensure that treatment is effective. Yes, you can get a treatment or maybe take medication to mask the pain for the short term but it may not address the injury long term.

Therefore the approach we take at Switch is to turn away people who want quick remedies. Instead, we provide each client with a detailed, individualised treatment plan that focuses on our 3 key steps of explore, preparation and return. We want to ensure that the outcomes of the plan are tailored to your specific needs for long term pain treatment so that physio is not a waste of time.

Physiotherapy in some cases can help reduce pain instantly after just one session. However, that doesn’t mean that the pain won’t return. It is important to focus on the root cause of the pain so that the area is not overloaded which will then lead to the pain returning. That is why we always make sure our Clients understand there aren’t shortcuts to resolving common pain problems. The length of time it might take physio to show long term signs of improvement will depend greatly on the nature of your injury and how severe it is, obviously each person’s situation will vary.